news from Phillip Rauls on 11/8/2020:
BMG Records has globally released the classic rock LP & CD masterwork titled "Greg Lake Anthology ~ A Musical Journey." The new release features the many highlights of this artist's great career including a deluxe LP complication and 21-song collection of his choice music. Plus, a 27-page color booklet that includes original pictures from throughout his lengthy career. I am very honored to have contributed in this project while having one of my select photographs of Greg Lake while taken on tour from the early 1970's that is included in the booklet (the same photo as seen here on page 8 below was also featured in my book "The Rock Trenches").
The Beatles and the Bill Black Combo
photo taken backstage in Chicago 1966
Rick Dees @WHBQ-AM in 1977
Why did Rick Dees seem to have it in for Elvis Presley in 1976? If the "He Ate Too Many Jelly Doughnuts" parody was not enough, he made three unsuccessful on-air attempts to crank call the King at his bedroom phone. Ginger Alden answered the hotline all three times and refused to hand the phone to Elvis while interrogating Dees ("How did you get this number? We just changed it.") on how he had become privy to the most secretly guarded phone number in Memphis. Sources claim that Alecia Kerwin set him up for the ambush (she was in the works to be the next girlfriend and Alden was to be kicked to the curb) and leaked info about Elvis's private number during visits to Dees' house on Sardis Lake. She told Mr. Disco Duck that Elvis would return from pre-dawn racquetball sessions and listen to WHBQ-AM waiting for Dees to play either Stevie Wonder's current hit song "Isn't She Lovely" or "When I Need You" from Leo Sayer before he would fall asleep.
Buddy Davis and Dan Ackroyd
-- late 1980's in Memphis
my girl 1985
Buddy Davis 1976
photo from Bill Marshall
Buddy Davis, Paul Cannon, Tommy Cathey and Jimi Jamison in the fall of 1978. Where was Bill Marshall?
Jack Holder, Jimi Jamison, Mandy Meyer, Jeff Klaven and Tommy Keiser formed the band Cobra in 1983.
The Breaks
Susanne Jerome Taylor and John Paul Daniel
Susanne Jerome Taylor, Rob Caudill and Pat Taylor
...the debut of Paul McCartney and Wings at the Hard Rock Cafe in London ---Isaac Tigrett pictured on the far right.
Valerie June and Luther Dickinson
Steve Forrester, James Flynn and Steve Ingle @Neil's Bar and Grill (8/18/19)
--they should form a ZZ Top tribute band...
Amy Jamison
Target in 1979: Bill Marshall, Paul Cannon, Tommy Cathey, Buddy Davis and Jimi Jamison.
Pam Grier and Mr. Wonderful at the Airport Hilton in 1975.
Phillip and Midori Rauls
Jerry Waddell and Steve Cropper
The Caboose in 1970--Walter Ramsey Jr., Tommy Cathey, Gary Johns, Patt Karr, Jackie Cook and Joel Williams.
The Northwest Airlines All-Stars in 1996: Mark Farner, Steve Cropper, Felix Cavaliere, David Santos, Liberty DeVito, Billy Preston, Wendy Moten, Mark Riveria, and Lou Gramm.
Joel Williams, Tommy Cathey, Walter Ramsey Jr., Patt Karr, Gary Johns and Jackie Cook --The Caboose (1970).
Susanne Jerome Taylor
Wyzard at the Peaches Records anniversary show in 1978.
Spider Murphy Workshop Stage
Susanne Jerome
